During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mississippi was not allowed to kick anyone off Medicaid under federal regulations. In exchange, the state received extra federal funding. But Mississippi didn’t simply maintain each person’s coverage. Instead, if enrollees on a managed care plan…
HHS Approves Arizona’s Medicaid Interventions to Target Health-Related Social Needs – HHS.gov
Arizona Medicaid demonstration will test interventions that directly affect individuals’ health, like housing insecurity Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), approved Medicaid section 1115 demonstration initiatives in…
Medicaid, Telehealth Fallout: Ending Covid Emergency Explained – Bloomberg Law
Millions of Americans’ Medicaid coverage and remote health-care services are among the items that will be cast into limbo once the Covid-19 public emergency comes to an end. The public health emergency has enabled the government to ease the way…
Iowa’s Medicaid program will soon have 3 insurance companies – Des Moines Register
Iowa will soon have three health insurance companies to help run its Medicaid program. On Wednesday, the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced the intent to award managed care contracts to two winning bidders: Amerigroup Iowa and Molina Healthcare of Iowa. Iowa…
Yet another attempt to expand Medicaid in NC – North Carolina Health News
By Anne Blythe For all those waiting with bated breath to find out whether Medicaid will be expanded to nearly 600,000 more North Carolinians, take a pause. Republicans in the state House of Representatives are not ready to embrace the…
NC Medicaid expansion gets serious attention from Senate GOP – ABC News
North Carolina Senate Republicans are strongly considering legislation that would expand Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands of additional low-income adults By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press 23 May 2022, 21:43 • 4 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail…
Medicaid expansion committee puts CON reform on the table – Winston-Salem Journal
A high-profile legislative healthcare oversight committee entered Monday the first prominent give-and-take phase of its reform efforts. The committee on Access to Healthcare and Medicaid Expansion spent its latest meeting discussing the state’s controversial certificate-of-need (CON) laws in perhaps the…
After lawmakers go home without extending postpartum Medicaid, six moms speak out. – Northside Sun
From postpartum depression to injuries, pregnancy-related health care needs don’t end 60 days after birth. These Mississippi moms know firsthand. Thousands of Mississippians stand to lose health insurance later this year because of Speaker of the House Philip Gunn’s refusal…
HHS: People with Medicaid, CHIP now eligible for postpartum coverage – Healthcare Finance News
Photo: Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images Beginning late last week, the Biden Administration extended postpartum healthcare coverage to as many as 720,000 pregnant and postpartum people across the U.S., who are now assured Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…
Missouri GOP continues fight to limit access to Medicaid – Westport News
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s GOP-led House on Tuesday advanced a proposal to allow lawmakers to defund Medicaid expansion, which would effectively undo voters’ recent decision to increase access to the government health care program. The measure, which received…